Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Brian's Tac Software Talk

Brian is a successful, long-term entrepreneur. He has built an online software company that has adjusted to stay alive and thriving. His employees are also on a long-term base. When a lot of companies hire contract workers for the project and let them go for low overhead, Brian wants his employees to retire from the company. A very noble way of running a business and keeping a good relationship with your employees. I am very relationship oriented, and would like to have a team that I could keep and strengthen.
That being said, the long-term notion is the culture of the company. If the culture is threatened, he needs to enforce it and get things back on track. An employee was disturbing the culture by turning aggressive on the programmers. The employee could be disciplined. But with the difficult history between the employees and the hit to the morale, it was Brian’s decision to fire them. That was to not only get rid of the problem, but send a message about the true culture of the company.    

20 – 25 years for a software company is quite a long time. He would be a great contact for adaptation in the tech field. Adaptation while having long-term employees seems very hard. Except the higher up overseers. With the company’s services changing, the personnel and skills with have to change too… is that also why tech companies are going for contract workers? I think in adjusting times for a company, I’d like to lean on contract workers for the jobs only and not carry their salary.   

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